Quz 8

Update:  Only two questions remain unanswered.  Anyone who knows the answers to question 5 in either rounds 2 or 6; this is your chance! 

This month’s quz is now available for your perusal.  I finally pitched this one at the right level for our local, but it’s anybody’s guess as to how well that will translate to you people.  The top three scores last night were 34, 31 and 29.  I’ve added the bonus round in again because it involves horror and is therefore awesome.  The highest mark for that round was 4, so there’s room for improvement if you know your Draculas.

Right.  Off you go.

(And yes, I stole a question idea off of Tomsk’s blog.  That should guarantee at least correct answer, I would hope).

Round 1: Words

(Each word contains the letters “DEL”)

1. A decorative or even ornate light fixture which hangs from the ceiling and commonly has multiple branched supports for its lights. (Chandelier)

2. A fortress or stronghold which commands a city, and is used to control the inhabitants and to aid in the city’s defence. (Citadel)

3. A nearly flat plain of alluvial deposit between diverging branches of the mouth of a river. (Delta)

4. A flower with deeply notched leaves which commonly considered a weed, and which is edible in its entirety. (Dandelion)

5. Denoting a heightened or altered state of sensory perception, often whilst under the effects of hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD. (Psychedelic/delirium)

Round 2: Hammers
 

1. What is the name of Thor’s hammer, with which the Norse God could level mountains and control lightning? (Mjollnir)

2. In what year of the 1990’s did MC Hammer release “U Can’t Touch This”? (1990)

3. What football club was originally founded as “Thames Ironworks Football Club” in 1895 (West Ham)

4. Which American steel-driver and folk hero raced against a steam-powered hammer and won, only to die immediately afterward with his hammer in his hand? (John Henry)

5. Set by Yuriy Sedykh in 1986, what is the world record distance for men’s hammer throwing to the nearest ten metres? (90m)

Round 3: Bats

1. What name is given to the dung of bats, along with that of seabirds and seals, and can be used in various compounds including fertilisers, fungicides, and even gunpowder? (Guano)

2. The logo of which spirits company is a black and gold bat inside a red circle with a gold outline? (Bacardi)

3. What wood is most commonly used to create baseball bats, though maple wood bats are now becoming increasingly wide-spread? (Ash)

4. Who wrote the 1874 comic operetta “The Bat”, known in the original German as “Die Fledermaus”? (Johann Strauss)

5. Who played Batman in the original 1960s television series? (Adam West)

Round 4: Musical Cats

1. Which group released the song “The Lovecats” in 1983? (The Cure)

2. Which was the last animated film to bear the phrase “A Walt Disney Production”? (The Aristocats)

3. How many members are there currently in the Pussycat Dolls? (5)

4. Following his conversion to Islam, to what did Cat Stevens change his name? (Yusuf Islam)

5. Who in 1989 released “Opposites Attract” from her debut album “Forever Your Girl”, accompanied by a Grammy award-winning video in which she dances with an animated character named “MC Skat Cat”? (Paula Abdul)

Round 5: Green

1. Which ‘80s comic anti-hero was one of only three people who could produce nuggets of purest green at will? (Blackadder, though Lord Percy and Baldrick will do)

2. The flag of which nation is the only one in the world to be one uniform colour, in this case green? (Libya)

3. Which American rock band released the album “Green” in 1988, which despite its name was coloured orange and featured the song “Orange Crush”? (R.E.M.)

4. Which legendary location is a heaven for sailors, being filled with music, alcohol, and “accommodating ladies”? (Fiddler's Green)

5. In 1989 elements of the US Army‘s “Green Berets” formed part of Operation Just Cause, an attempt to depose Manuel Noriega. Which Central American country did he rule at the time? (Panama)

Round 6: Stuff What Got Set On Fire

1. The Great Fire of London began at the bakery of Thomas Farriner in which London street? (Pudding Lane)

2. First founded in 1966 in Belmont, which bakery lost its principal production plant to a fire in 2004? (Peter's)

3. Who played architect Doug Roberts in the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno? (Paul Newman)

4. He was the God of Hellfire, and he gave you: fire! What was his name? (Arthur Brown)

5. In which French city was Joan of Arc burned at the stake for heresy? (Rouen)

General Knowledge

1. How do Ron and Harry rescue Hermione from the troll in the dungeon? (They levitate its own club and hit him over the head with it)

2. The mathematical constant e, also called Euler’s Constant after the 18^th Century Swiss mathematician, lies between which two whole numbers? (2 and 3)

3. Software developers released a program last week that automatically offers objections and counter-evidence to anyone denying global warming on what internet social network? (Twitter)

4. Which African country comes first alphabetically? (Algeria)

5. The tetralogy Down With Skool, How To Be Topp, Whizz For Atomms and Back In The Jug Agane chronicle the exploits of which mischievous schoolboy, created by Geoffrey Willans? (Nigel Molesworth)

6. Which spice is ground from chilli peppers, or from bell peppers, which in some languages are given the same name as the spice itself? (Paprika)

7. What name is given to the unit of distance equal to the average distance between the Sun and the Earth? (Astronomical Unit)

8. Which Belgian surrealist artist painted “The Human Condition” and “The Son Of Man”, and at one point was reduced to printing forged bank-notes to acquire money? (Rene Magritte)

9. The national sport of Bangladesh, in which game do two teams occupy opposite halves of a field, and take turns sending one player into the other half, who attempts to tag an opposing player whilst holding their breath (Kabadi)

10. Who killed Cock Robin? (The Sparrow)

Bonus Round

(Each of these five actors who have played Dracula.  In each case I want to know the name of the actor who played Van Helsing opposite them.)

1. Christopher Lee (Peter Cushing)

2. Gary Oldman (Anthony Hopkins)

3. Leslie Nielsen (Mel Brooks)

4. Bela Lugosi (Edward van Sloan)

5. Richard Roxburgh (Hugh Jackman)